The brightening idea to light up a tropical forest all night could both solve and create problems, maybe, as suggested in this study: “Exploration of a Novel Geoengineering Solution: Lighting Up Tropical Forests at Night,” Xueyuan Gao, Shunlin Liang, Dongdong Wang, Yan Li, Bin He, and Aolin Jia, Earth System Dynamics, vol. 13, 2022, pp. […]
“To quantify the potential cost of hopelessness on electricity consumption, we regressed the preference of the ideal wattage for a ceiling fixture onto the hopelessness scale and found that it costs participants on average 20.6% more electricity to feel 1 point less hopeful toward the economy and career prospect.” – explain Ping Dong and Chen-Bo […]
